Intelligence What characterises people with high IQ's ?

[Northener]

the vast majority of the world population are sheep
not sure what human touch or wisdom you are referring to

may be all in the eye of the beholder?

 

[Angela]

To answer the thread question: impatience.

 

[D.L.M]

You can start here:
https://www.mensa.org/public/mensa-iq-challenge

I scored 115, and on a second time days later 120. In both times I was not able to finish it in time so it got cut off. (got stuck in some questions so I lost too much time) However the last questions I went through were really tough, so I think it is quite of a decent test.

On another one I scored 113 which was very similar to one above, in terms of difficulty. I tend to score several points above 110 on those online tests, the ones that look to be legitimate. (not the easy ones that don't reflect reality, I mean you can tell)

Valid IQ testing takes hours and requires a PhD psychiatrist and can cost to 2000$ in US. I am personally satisfied with my IQ in my personal experience so I don't care about numbers even if it is below 100 or not.

 

[johngowans]

While high IQ can be advantageous in certain fields that require complex problem-solving and analytical thinking, it does not guarantee success. Success is a holistic concept that encompasses various aspects of an individual's life, including career achievements, personal relationships, health, happiness, and fulfillment. I score 126 as I took the iq test

It's also important to recognize that individuals with a wide range of intellectual abilities can achieve success in their chosen fields and make valuable contributions to society.

High IQ can be an advantage in certain areas, success is influenced by a wide range of factors, including social and emotional intelligence, perseverance, creativity, adaptability, opportunity, and personal values.

Individuals who are open to new challenges and who aren't afraid to take risks tend to be more intelligent. The study used a driving simulation, and found that participants who made riskier decisions during the test had more white brain matter — an area of the brain associated with cognitive function.

 

[real expert]

Intelligent people have good observation skills, are curious, do not overestimate themselves, recognize connections, and have a healthy dose of skepticism, and so on.

 

[Jovialis]

Caltech Scientists Can Predict Intelligence from Brain Scans

The approach is a step toward developing a tool for diagnosing conditions like autism, schizophrenia, and anxiety

www.caltech.edu

A distributed brain network predicts general intelligence from resting-state human neuroimaging data - PubMed

Individual people differ in their ability to reason, solve problems, think abstractly, plan and learn. A reliable measure of this general ability, also known as intelligence, can be derived from scores across a diverse set of cognitive tasks. There is great interest in understanding the neural...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Resting-state functional brain connectivity best predicts the personality dimension of openness to experience - PubMed

Personality neuroscience aims to find associations between brain measures and personality traits. Findings to date have been severely limited by a number of factors, including small sample size and omission of out-of-sample prediction. We capitalized on the recent availability of a large...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

We constantly hear the canard that IQ tests are bias. But we can in fact determine intelligence from brain scans.

 

[Jovialis]

Caltech Scientists Can Predict Intelligence from Brain Scans

The approach is a step toward developing a tool for diagnosing conditions like autism, schizophrenia, and anxiety

www.caltech.edu

A distributed brain network predicts general intelligence from resting-state human neuroimaging data - PubMed

Individual people differ in their ability to reason, solve problems, think abstractly, plan and learn. A reliable measure of this general ability, also known as intelligence, can be derived from scores across a diverse set of cognitive tasks. There is great interest in understanding the neural...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Resting-state functional brain connectivity best predicts the personality dimension of openness to experience - PubMed

Personality neuroscience aims to find associations between brain measures and personality traits. Findings to date have been severely limited by a number of factors, including small sample size and omission of out-of-sample prediction. We capitalized on the recent availability of a large...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

We constantly hear the canard that IQ tests are bias. But we can in fact determine intelligence from brain scans.

New Brain Mapping Technique Highlights Relationship between Connectivity and IQ

A new and relatively simple technique for mapping the wiring of the brain has shown a correlation between how well connected an individual's brain regions are and their intelligence, say researchers at the University of Cambridge. In recent years, there has been a concerted effort among...

www.eupedia.com

 

[Duarte]

Predicting political beliefs with polygenic scores for cognitive performance and educational attainment​

Highlights​

• Within-families, intelligence predict left-wing beliefs.
• DNA-based predictors of IQ also predict political beliefs within families.
• Our results imply that being genetically predisposed to be smarter causes left-wing beliefs.

Predicting political beliefs with polygenic scores for cognitive performance and educational attainment

 

[Archetype0ne]

Predicting political beliefs with polygenic scores for cognitive performance and educational attainment​

Highlights​

• Within-families, intelligence predict left-wing beliefs.
• DNA-based predictors of IQ also predict political beliefs within families.
• Our results imply that being genetically predisposed to be smarter causes left-wing beliefs.

Predicting political beliefs with polygenic scores for cognitive performance and educational attainment

I wonder how they define left wing... so many different political issues... and single issue voters. But still I think defining left-wing and right-wing is highly error prone, for most issues the left in the US would be centrist in Western Europe. Does this mean that a European centrist gains a couple of IQ points when stepping in the US, just because they skid to the left in the local spectrum. lol
The whole premise of this research question feels off to me.

 

[lynxbythetv]

Intelligent people have good observation skills, are curious, do not overestimate themselves, recognize connections, and have a healthy dose of skepticism, and so on.

Ya reckon I believe most who score higher in these IQ tests are the opposite of all you have mentioned and can at times just be individuals who are on the autistic spectrum.